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Originally Posted by Vicky.

I am not sure what you mean by this?

I have stabbing pains in my ribs for most hours of the day, strong enough to stop me doing pretty much anything besides sitting shifting positions and putting pressure on my ribs to attempt to ease it. I get a few hours break from this usually, where I am (or was..before the op) totally normal and can do anything a normal person can do. This is the pain that I think is caused by hormones, as this is what went away completely when I was pregnant. I used to get this maybe once a month and it would last a few hours then go, but after I gave birth to my son, a few weeks later this pain was back with a vengeance, and almost never let up...rather than being only once a month it was constant.

The doctors thought the pain could be caused by my gallbladder, which was apparently inflamed. So I was told a quick operation could maybe fix me. So I had it. However the surgeon ****ed up hugely, he cut the wrong place, and left me with a massive bile leak. The hospital was trying to discharge me while I felt half dead, as they needed the bed. I was in total agony, quite literally screaming for pain relief and they told me to stop exaggerating and go home. However, eventually they sent a doctor to assess me, and he sent me for a scan where they found that I was basically, drowning in bile inside..thats what the burning was. I was told if I had gone home as was suggested I would have died, as I would not have got back to the hospital in time to actually sort it as the bile was eating my organs. So they did an emergency operation to fix this, and when I came around again I had huge drain things sticking out of my chest. Long story short, these drains were ion for 2 weeks, I had to stay in hospital for that long and ever since this I still feel like the drains are in which is apparently caused by nerve damage.

So again, not quite sure what you mean, but yes I do have an illness, but its currently still undiagnosed (the rib thing) but the rest is diagnosed as nerve damage.

I simply asked if you had an illness or just conditions